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Building MyPaint Brushes

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MyPaint’s default brush collection is also external to MyPaint.

mypaint-brushes package can be installed as a typical autotools build:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
# make install

Using the brushes with pkg-config

If your application needs libmypaint 2.x brushes, you can make the module “mypaint-brushes-2.0” a dependency with pkg-config.

For a C/C++ program, the CFlags generated by pkg-config will define the macro MYPAINT_BRUSHES_DIR, usable in your code in order to get the path for all mypaint default brushes.

For programs in other languages, you can use the variable brushesdir to get the same information with pkg-config and insert this value in your program in the relevant way.

pkg-config –variable=brushesdir mypaint-brushes-2.0

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